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How to use kiwi in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Kiwi means a flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand. Example: “It’s delightfully crisp and refreshing with notes of sea salt, white peach and kiwi fruit.”

More sentences with kiwi

  • It’s delightfully crisp and refreshing with notes of sea salt, white peach and kiwi fruit.2025 August 15, Elycia Rubin, “Hollywood Sommeliers Pick the Best Rosés (and Whites) for the End of Summer”, in The Hollywood Reporter…. From the entry kiwi fruit
  • America has its bald eagle and New Zealand has its kiwi, a flightless brown bird.2010, Alexander Elder, Straying from the Flock: Travels in New Zealand. From the entry flightless
  • Kiwi, our green-checked conure, crawled out of her bedbox and loudly demanded attention.1992, The Pet Bird Report - Volumes 2-4, page 40. From the entry bedbox
  • Surprisingly, kiwi fruit is not everywhere, but full cream milk, with the cream floating on top, is.1991 October 27, Merrill Perlman, “Exploring a World of Glaciers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry kiwi fruit
  • The combination of crunchy meringue and the cool, fruity flavor of the kiwis was sensational.1978 January, Caroline Bates, “Spécialités de la Maison—California”, in Earle R[utherford] MacAusland, editor, Gourmet: The Magazine of…. From the entry pavlova
  • But three of Pratt's new power foods are fruits that are currendy in season — pomegranates, kiwis and apples.2005, Newsweek, Newsweek, page 79. From the entry superfruit
  • Ctenophores are mostly planktonic creatures about the size and shape of a kiwi fruit or grape, bearing rows of beating "combs."2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 35. From the entry comb
  • Also offered are an array of premium margaritas, including the Kiwirita, a specialty made with fresh lime and kiwi fruit juices.1999, Restaurant Business, volume 98, numbers 13-18, Restaurant Business, page 125. From the entry kiwirita
  • Roland sat on the edge of the bed and ate all the courtesy chocolates, kiwis, physalises and salted nuts and drank a litre of carbonated water.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 340. From the entry physalis
  • The kiwi bloke is a Pakeha working man, at home on the football field, in the sands of North Africa, at the pub (but in the public bar).1999, Malcolm MacLean, “Of Warriors and Blokes: The Problem of Maori Rugby for Pakeha Masculinity in New Zealand”, in Timothy J[ohn]…. From the entry bloke
  • To make the kiwi pistachio mousse: Put the aquafaba in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and beat the liquid on medium speed until foamy.2016 July 15, Jackie Sobon, Vegan Bowl Attack!: More Than 100 One-Dish Meals Packed with Plant-Based Power, Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry aquafaba

Meaning of kiwi

  1. noun A flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand.
  2. noun A New Zealand dollar.
  3. noun A kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa).

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Questions about kiwi in a sentence

How do you use kiwi in a sentence?
Kiwi is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It’s delightfully crisp and refreshing with notes of sea salt, white peach and kiwi fruit.”
What is a short sentence with kiwi?
“Kiwi, our green-checked conure, crawled out of her bedbox and loudly demanded attention.”
What does kiwi mean?
Kiwi means a flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kiwi (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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